Word: goad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indians decided to move. With snow falling in the foothills of the Himalayas, making Chinese intervention even more unlikely, they sprang. Their aim was twofold: to draw West Pakistani troops to the border regions, making it easy for the guerrillas to gain control of the interior; and to goad Islamabad into declaring war so as to enable India to attack in the west as well as the east, and thus settle the issue of Kashmir once...
...Lagos, Nigeria, last March, the already depleted ranks of national civil rights leaders suffered a seemingly irreparable blow. Militant young blacks, scornful of older, more established organizations like Young's Urban League, have not produced a man with his skill as a persuasive negotiator and as a goad to whites who wield economic power. Last week the National Urban League announced the selection of a successor to Young who may well prove to be the bridge between black leaders of the past and black demands of the future. Vernon E. Jordan Jr., a black lawyer whose career has spanned...
Before World War II, Niebuhr seemed almost singlehandedly to goad idealistic Protestants into supporting the imminent war against Nazism; he founded the journal Christianity and Crisis to promote his views. Once that war ended, it was the growing power of the Soviet bloc that worried him. Communism was "cruel and fanatical," he wrote, because of its illusion that private property caused the sins of man and any means was justifiable to eradicate...
Seeking new ways to goad restless students, Hampshire is brimful of "relevant" interdisciplinary studies. One environmental course, for example, pulls together the geography of Mount Washington, the works of Thoreau, the migration of the Mormons, and computerized mathematical simulations of ecological systems. Hampshire has also been a pioneer in letting students work on their own for a month in midwinter. This year one girl simulated blindness for two weeks in a self-designed psychology experiment; Holly Lyman, daughter of Stanford University President Richard Lyman, taught herself to weave...
...Goad. Such diversity is now the most hopeful U.S. trend in the teaching of reading. Convinced that orthodox methods have misfired (more than one-third of public school pupils read below the minimum standard for their ages), reading teachers are also goaded by TV's remarkable series for preschoolers, Sesame Street, whose "graduates" now enter school knowing the alphabet and bored by many traditional reading exercises (TIME cover, Nov. 23). Twenty-five years ago, most schools used three "basal" reading programs of stories and workbooks; today there are 20, three introduced in the past year, each splintered into...